[No Left Turn]

The 1998 incident went to the county child protective services folks and the police. It was determined at that time there was not enough evidence to pursue a prosecution of Sandusky. What did Paterno do? He fired Sandusky. He had no day-to-day contact with js after that and was not a party to js having access to the campus after that.

Paterno allowed his buddy to retire. He didn't fire him. That is pretty bad on its own. Despite child sex assault allegations, JS was still allowed on campus, because Paterno allowed him to retire with standing, rather than fire him which would have barred his access to campus facilities. JS used his access to lure children. Nice.

And I'm sure JoePa had no idea JS was using his facilities or saw him there in 10+ years.

[Delta Dawn]

Paterno did not allow js to retire, that was above Paterno’s pay grade. With no criminal charges there was probably nothing else the administration could do.

js having campus access was due to his tenure, another decision above Paterno’s pay grade.

You can bet that they did not meet at the local coffee shop on Saturday mornings.

I can only guess, but I would surmise that when the 2001 allegations came out that Paterno probably got on the phone with the people responsible for js still being around and gave them a peice of his mind. At the time of the 2001 allegations Paterno followed state law and reported the incident to his superior.

I’m just curious, what should Paterno have done that would not have violated state law and opened himself up to possible prosecution?

Paterno was not the ‘God’ that his naysayers refer to him as. He was God of the football program, but outside of the program he was just another tenured professor.